A Santa Clara County mental health counselor for teens was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of child sex trafficking.

Justin Crutchfield, 27, and a second defendant, 23-year-old Demontae Toliver, were named in an indictment unsealed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Jose. Both pleaded not guilty to two counts each of sex trafficking of children and sexual exploitation of children, all felonies.

The indictment said the men, both San Jose residents, forced two girls, identified only as E.O. and L.G., to "engage in commercial sex acts." Authorities said the men victimized the girls, ages 15 and 17, after meeting them in the city's downtown.

The case was investigated by San Jose police and the FBI. If convicted, the men face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.